‘SORRY WRONG HOUSE!’ say Israeli soldiers after murdering 21-year-old
‘We made a mistake in the house,’ said one of the Israeli occupation soldiers, trying to justify to the mother of Mohammad Ibrahim Shaham,...
Fight NHS Sackings
‘We will do everything we can to avoid redundancies’, said UNISON south west regional organiser Chris Dayus yesterday, after the Royal...
We want action not words from TUC
LOCKED-OUT Gate Gourmet workers, boosted by their successful intervention at the TUC in Brighton on Monday, are calling for immediate reinstatement or action to...
Taken Alive And Murdered Allege Iraqis
Defence Secretary Ainsworth yesterday conceded in High Court proceedings that there must be an investigation into whether UK soldiers murdered a number of...
Kurds raided by counter-terrorism police – ‘an unjust & heavy handed operation’
THE Kurdish Community in London have written a statement ahead of a march in central London tomorrow against the arrest of Kurdish demonstrators in...
Palestinians Drive Israeli Tanks Out Of Gaza
Palestinian resistance fighters took on Israeli tanks invading eastern Gaza City early yesterday morning and forced their withdrawal after hours of fierce clashes. Palestinians said...
Greek dockers fight privatisation
DOCKWORKERS of the two main Greek ports of Piraeus and Thessaloniki have completed one month of strike action against privatisation and consequent dramatic change...
Heathrow Strike Warning
Changes to shifts and rosters at Scandinavian Airways at Heathrow (SAS), now to be known as Scandinavian Ground Services (SGS), may lead to industrial...
Yashika Deportation Stopped!
THE Home Office’s forced deportation of 19-year-old female Mauritian student Yashika Bageerathi was stopped yesterday after Air Mauritius refused to fly her. Yashika, who remains...
‘Kill off no deal, kill off May’s deal forward to 2nd referendum’ – John...
‘FIRST thing is we will vote against Theresa May’s deal,’ John McDonnell Labour Shadow Chancellor said yesterday about her Brexit deal, after the government...
A WAR ON CHILDREN! – says Save the Children
ABOUT 130,000 children aged under 10 have been trapped for 50 days in areas in northern Gaza that are almost entirely inaccessible to aid...
UK Troops For The Ukraine Says Shapps
TORY Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has announced that UK troops are to be sent to the Ukraine ‘to train Zelensky’s military on the ground’...
Palestinian leaders condemn Trump-Netanyahu Gaza plan!
HAMAS is studying the 20-point plan for Gaza which US President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu published on Monday evening. Trump claimed yesterday that...
No Deal Brexit Is Only Way Forward
LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn, yesterday displayed ‘unredacted documents’ about secret US-UK government trade talks putting the NHS on the table in any future post...
SALE OF JOBS AND CONDITIONS – CWU signs deal with Royal Mail
Communication Workers’ Union (CWU) leaders have signed a pay for jobs and ‘efficiency’ deal with Royal Mail. They are attempting to sell it to members...
No Low-Pay Zone In South West
The South West TUC has today launched a campaign to stop the West Country being declared a low-pay zone. Chancellor Osborne’s plan to end national...
Trump-Putin To Discuss Crisis In Syria
US PRESIDENT Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin have met for the first time, shaking hands at the start of a G20 summit in...
Public sector workers at breaking point!
‘PUBLIC sector workers are at breaking point,’ the GMB union said yesterday after the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that inflation has hit...
‘The unacceptable face of capitalism’ – Green warned to pay up
‘IF PHILIP Green won’t do the right thing by the members of the BHS pension fund then he should have his knighthood removed. And...
New European banking crash fears
A FRESH European-wide banking crash has reared its head as the euro tumbled to a six-month low yesterday in reaction to the Italian crisis....
Artificial heart saves 13-year-old – Royal Brompton must not close!
THIRTEEN-year-old Chloe Narbonne would have died if it wasn’t for a revolutionary pioneering operation that gave her a new artificial heart, all thanks to...
Battle On To Stop Chase Farm Closure
‘WE’RE having a good picket today,’ said Bill Rogers, secretary of the North-East London Council of Action, outside Chase Farm Hospital yesterday. The Council of...
NHS Francis Inquiry Slammed
THE Francis inquiry into what happened at Mid-Staffordshire ‘has allowed the government to blame frontline clinicians rather than those in charge.’ This was the...
Grenfell–‘Companies Killed 72 People!’
THE COMPANIES that carried out the Grenfell Tower refurbishment killed 72 people ‘just as surely as if they had taken careful aim with a...
‘GROSS INJUSTICE’ – PCS slams benefits cap
‘It is a gross injustice that hard-pressed households are being punished for economic problems caused by greedy bankers and politicians by having their benefits...
General Strike in Palestine!
A GENERAL strike was held in Palestine’s West Bank yesterday as part of a worldwide strike in solidarity with Gaza, which has suffered the...
Greek coach drivers strike ruled illegal
A Greek single judge court on Sunday ruled ‘illegal’ a four-day national strike declared by the coach drivers’ federation of trades unions to demand...
Decanted families warehoused in office blocks
FAMILIES are being ‘warehoused’ inside an office block in Harlow, Essex after being decanted from their local boroughs, with tenants forced to eat, drink...
Challenge To Labour’s Torture Policies
TODAY Reprieve will begin legal proceedings to challenge the British government’s infamous series of ‘torture policies’: official guidance for agents interviewing prisoners held abroad. Under...
‘we Want Leaders Who Fight For The Workers’
‘OUR trade union leaders did nothing for us,’ sacked Gate Gourmet worker Parmjit Bains told a 200-strong fourth anniversary rally for the sacked workers...
Gaza ceasefire deal ‘at closest point yet’
‘A CEASEFIRE in the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza is at its closest point yet, with negotiations to bring the 15-month conflict to an end...
Back to the workhouse! – new Tory policy for unemployed
THE Tory coalition yesterday launched their latest scheme to drive unemployed people off benefits. The scheme, cynically entitled ‘Help to Work’, targets ‘long-term unemployed’ people...
GLOBAL MOBILISATION! – Hamas calls Friday-Sunday action against genocide
THE HAMAS Movement has called for intensified global mobilisation to Israel’s genocide and starvation war against the Palestinian people referring to the ongoing Israeli...
Nasrallah assassination ‘an act of Israeli desperation’ says Iran
‘ISRAEL has gone on an assassination spree against resistance commanders in a desperate effort to prevent its demise,’ Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf...
London FBU Strike Ballot!
‘WE will commence a ballot for strike action in seven days’ time,’ Fire Brigades Union General Secretary Matt Wrack announced to a demonstration of...
‘TROUBLE AHEAD FOR MAY’ – warns the ERG’s Steve Baker
TORY MP Steve Baker, deputy chairman of the Eurosceptic group the European Research Group (ERG), warned yesterday there is ‘trouble ahead’ for May. He tweeted:...
‘BLAIR MUST BE PUNISHED’ – Military families serve notice on Downing Street
‘I HOPE this gets Tony Blair punished for all his war crimes, for the death of our sons and all those Iraqis,’ Rose Gentle...
General Practice brought to its knees by funding crisis!
MORE than 34 million patients in England will this year fail to get an appointment with their GP, when seeking treatment, because of the...
60% Of Sadr City Dead Are Women And Children
THE Sadr City region of Baghdad is facing a humanitarian catastrophe with tens of thousands of residents cut off from clean water, food and...
Workers’ Anger Forces Leaders To Think Again
THE Unite and Unison trade unions have joined with the GMB in suspending the Heads of Agreement with the Coalition government on destroying public...
DISASTER! – more British troops killed in Iraq and Afghanistan
Two British soldiers were killed and another two injured, one seriously, in a roadside bomb attack near Basra in southern Iraq, yesterday. Their patrol was...
Baha Mousa torture inquiry conceded by Defence Secretary
Liberty Director Shami Chakrabarti and Public Interest Lawyers solicitor Phil Shiner yesterday welcomed an announcement by the Secretary of State for Defence of an...
Student nurse numbers plummet again
THE TORIES axing of the student nurses and midwives bursary has caused numbers applying to plummet even further, this time by 10%, meaning that...
Crisis Pre-Budget
Britain has had to face ‘the toughest and most challenging year for the economy’ in which it has seen predicted economic growth halved to...
Sharma refuses to sign petition to reopen Ealing paediatrics and maternity
EALING Southall Labour MP Varindra Sharma refused to sign the West London Council of Action petition to reopen maternity and paediatrics at Ealing Hospital...